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The senior judge overseeing the extradition proceedings of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange received financial benefits from two partner organisations of the British Foreign Office before her appointment, it can be revealed. by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis  Part 1 It can further be revealed that Lady Emma Arbuthnot was appointed Chief Magistrate in Westminster on the advice of a Conservative government minister with whom she had attended a secretive meeting organised by one of these Foreign Office partner organisations two years before. Liz Truss, then Justice Secretary, “advised” the Queen to appoint Lady Arbuthnot in October 2016. Two years before, Truss — who is now Trade Secretary — and Lady Arbuthnot both attended an off-the-record two-day meeting in Bilbao, Spain.  The expenses were covered by an organisation called Tertulias, chaired by Lady Arbuthnot’s husband — Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, a former Conservative defence minister with extensive links to the Br

Part 1 Nicaragua’s twentieth-century history cannot be told without placing the United States government as the main antagonist. It is their active interventions that have shaped the Central American country’s political, economic and social systems, but it is also the opposing forces to this imperialist aggression that has served as a counterbalance to writing the story of the Nicaraguan people.  From military invasions to economic blockades, the U.S. has set to extinguish every attempt to a left-wing alternative against the imposed 'Banana Republic' model, that U.S. transnational interests have exerted in the country ever since the 19th century. Yet it is out of U.S. imperialism, that a figure rose in Nicaragua to become a symbol of rebellion and hope for past, current and future generations. Know as the ‘General of Free Men’, Augusto Cesar Sandino’s life and murder on Feb. 21, 1934, would shape the Central American republic. But to understand the emergence an

Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking. by Morgan Artyukhina  Part 18 - We don’t need you to type at all… “ One of the things that eventually happens … is that we don’t need you to type at all because we know where you are, ” Schmidt, Google’s then-CEO, said of the company in a 2010 interview with The Atlantic . “ We know where you’ve been. We can more or less guess what you’re thinking about. ” He later added, “ One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that. ” On the internet, as in the realm of foreign policy, the U.S. security state is bipartisan in its bid to control the boundaries of acceptable behavior and thought, shepherding them by hook or crook i

Documents obtained by MEE reveal how British contractors recruited Syrian citizen journalists - often without their knowledge - to promote 'moderate opposition' by Ian Cobain, Alice Ross Part 1 The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country’s civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London. A number of leaked documents seen by Middle East Eye show how the propaganda initiative began in 2012 and gathered pace the following year, shortly after the UK parliament refused to authorise British military action in Syria. Drawing upon British, American and Canadian funding, UK government contractors set up offices in Istanbul and Amman, where they hired members of the Syrian diaspora, who in turn recruited citizen journalists inside Syria. These journalists, many of them young, were c

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will continue his fight in court against extradition to the US on 24 February. The US case for extradition of the publisher – effectively for the ‘crime’ of exposing government wrongdoing – is littered with flaws and faces widespread opposition from the public. Now, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights has put another spanner in the works in the case against Assange. The commissioner, Dunja Mijatović, has released a statement insisting that the WikiLeaks founder should not face extradition. She’s not the only senior human rights figure doing so either. Mijatović released the statement on 20 February, just days before the next round in Assange’s fight against extradition. It reads:                     Julian Assange’s potential extradition has human rights implications that reach far beyond his individual case. The indictment raises important questions about the protection of those that publish classified information in the

 Empire Files Abby Martin meets with Nithya Raman, progressive candidate for LA City Council in District 4, about her campaign to end homelessness in the nation's epicenter and how local politicians refuse to take easy actions to eradicate the phenomenon–but refuse to in the interests of big real estate developers.

Democracy At Work David Harvey breaks down how capitalism works and why it is important to examine the  long-run evolution of capital and the long-run pressures placed on capital that inevitably make it unsustainable.

globinfo freexchange We can safely now say that Bloomberg's propaganda ad against Bernie Sanders' supporters marks the establishment's official declaration of war on the progressive movement. Previously, corporate media revived the "BernieBro" myth in order to open the road for the war. As we already mentioned , the anti-movement hysteria reached unprecedented levels when MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd compared Sanders' supporters to Nazi brownshirts! Todd's preposterous comparison wasn't accidental. He was specifically targeting moderate voters of the Democratic party. The aim was to scare them and prevent further popular-vote leakage from the establishment nominees towards Bernie during the next primary battles. Michael Bloomberg grabbed the chance and tried to amplify further the BernieBro-scare through a blatantly propagandistic sample of negative advertisement. He doesn't have any movement behind him, but he has a lot of money to spend

The Grayzone In Managua, Ben Norton interviews Nicaragua's representative to the UN's International Court of Justice, Carlos Argüello Gómez, who speaks about his country's case against the US over its terrorist Contra war, the 2018 coup attempt, and why Washington's unilateral sanctions are an illegal form of warfare on civilians.

Η Βουλή δεν μπορεί να λειτουργεί ως πλυντήριο παραθεσμικών λειτουργιών με την επίκληση του βουλευτικού έργου Κώστας Βαξεβάνης Δεν ξέρω αν υπάρχει κάτοικος αυτής της χώρας που να πιστεύει πως το σκάνδαλο Novartis δεν είναι σκάνδαλο, αλλά δεν νομίζω πως υπάρχει πολίτης που παρακολουθεί όσα συμβαίνουν και δεν έχει συμπεράνει λογικά ποιος είναι ο σκοπός της Προανακριτικής Επιτροπής. Σκοπός είναι η αποκάλυψη και η παραδειγματική τιμωρία των προστατευόμενων μαρτύρων που έφεραν στην επιφάνεια το σκάνδαλο και τους επιφανείς συντελεστές του. Για θυμηθείτε όταν έγιναν οι πρώτες αποκαλύψεις, οι οποίες δεν σχετίζονταν μόνο με μαρτυρίες αλλά και με έγγραφα που ξεκάθαρα περιέγραφαν πώς η Novartis είχε εξασφαλίσει ότι παράγοντες της κυβέρνησης Σαμαρά θα έκαναν όσα επιθυμούσε; Τι έκαναν οι εμπλεκόμενοι; Απάντησαν για τα έγγραφα; Απάντησαν για όσα τους βάραιναν; Δέκα νέα φάρμακα της Novartis έβαλε ο Άδωνης Γεωργιάδης σε κυκλοφορία, όσα δηλαδή απαιτούσε το εσωτερικό σχέδιο της φαρμακοβιομηχ